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Is fascinated by robot vision. She is the sole author of GNU C-Graph, the
product of an imagined nexus between the movie "Blade Runner" and
her 1983 BSc. Electrical Engineering Honours dissertation "Interactive
Computer Package Demonstrating: Sampling Convolution and the FFT".

Akim maintained GNU a2ps and Autoconf, contributed to Automake, and maintains Bison. He is a teacher/researcher at LRDE, the EPITA R&D laboratory. He is
working on Vcsn, a
platform dedicated to automata and rational expressions, composed of
an efficient C++ library, a Python interface, and a graphical user
interface on top of IPython.

Al Davis

Is the principal author and maintainer of GnuCap, the
Gnu Circuit Analysis Package. He is a professor of
electrical engineering at Idaho State University (http://www.isu.edu/)
with research in analog and mixed signal design and
simulation.

Is one of the maintainers of GNU
libtool, GNU
Autoconf, and the creator of GNU Ad HoC and GNU
CVS Utilities. He regularly contributes to many other
GNU and non-GNU Free Software projects such as Kaffe,
Amanda and Samba. As a researcher, he has created
Guarana, a reflective architecture implemented as an
extension of Kaffe.

Is the author and maintainer of FreeIPMI.
He is a member of the FSF-India working group,
currently leads the Free Software division of
California Digital as CTO and built the world's second
fastest Super Computer, code named "Thunder", entirely
out of Free Software. Occasionally, he gives speeches
about Free Software.

Anuradha Ratnaweera

Maintains GNU awk (gawk) and is the author of its
manual, The GNU Awk User's Guide. He has written a
series of articles on GNU for Linux Journal. He
has a wife and three children, and, among other
things, is an amateur Talmudist, both Babylonian and
Jerusalem. He is now living happily in Israel,
although he still has the Georgia license plate
GNUAWK.

He is a GNU/Linux
fan since the early days and he is
the author of the GNU oSIP library.
He is working in the IP telecom area in the hope that
one day everybody will unplug their 50 years old
traditional phone for ever.

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He is a GNU/Linux
enthusiast from India. He is a member of the Free Software
Foundation of India working committee. He is a full time
slacker and hacks on Python when he has some time. He is
also a very enthusiastic speaker at numerous Free Software
Conferences. He was a contributor to GNU Freetalk, the
Free Jabber client.

Is the founder and main developer of Ark Linux (later merged into
OpenMandriva), and a contributor to various other free software
projects.

Bob Glickstein

Is a long-time intermittent contributor to GNU Emacs and
other GNU software. He's the author of GNU Stow and the
'sregex' Emacs Lisp package. He's also written other
free software, notably Latte, and a handful
of other packages.

Bradley M. Kuhn (aka bkuhn)

Began working with the Free Software Foundation and
the GNU project as a volunteer in the mid-1990s. In
February 2001, he was hired full-time. He served as
Executive Director of the FSF until 2005, and is now
the CTO at the Software Freedom Law Center. Mr. Kuhn
contributes to GNU as a volunteer by hacking on
various Free Software programs and Free Documentation.

Wore many hats at the FSF beginning in 2002, including
GNU Chief Webmaster, intern, and Shipping Manager, and
licensing guru at the FSF Compliance
Lab.

Brian J. Fox

Has been involved with the FSF since 1986. He is the
author of the GNU shell BASH, the GNU Texinfo compiler
Makeinfo and the viewer Info, the GNU Readline
Library, GNU Finger, parts of GDB and GNU Emacs, and
other lesser projects.

Brian Gough

Is one of the developers of the GNU Scientific
Library and its current maintainer. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Volunteer maintainer for GNU GLeem as of September 2015. Is deeply
fascinated with 3D graphics and data visualization. Is a deep free
software advocate and loves to play video games and leads the DMUX project to try to create a better freedom
respecting environment for gamers.

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Carlo Wood

Is the maintainer of GNU
which, libcwd, ircu and prototype
Makefiles, and has been the maintainer of GNU
indent. Carlo is best known for his
improvements to IRC (starting
with undernet)
but contributed to numerous other projects. For the
past few years he worked mostly on libcw, an
ambitious C++ project existing of building blocks for
heavy-duty networking applications.

Is the current maintainer of GNU
GNATS. After using GNATS for years in his various
sysadmin and programming jobs, he felt it was time to
give back to the community. In college, he was
addicted to emacs, but was converted to the dark side,
vim, in his professional career. Don't hold it
against him.

Charles Henry Schoonover

Is the author and maintainer of GNU WebPublish. He is
also a libertarian political activist who has
demonstrated for legalizing marijuana by smoking a
joint at a Harlingen, Texas city coucil meeting and
also by running for Congress.

Christopher Dimech

Is the author and maintainer of GNU Behistun, a package
for geological mapping with applications to disaster hazard risk level
forecasting, disaster early warning and response.

Christopher Gutteridge

Is the main author of GNU EPrints (well, version 2,
anyway). He can be found working as a System
Programmer, Webmaster, Unix Admin, Teaching Support
and EPrints developer and support (often all at once)
at the Department of
Electronics and Computer Science at the University
of Southampton. Chris denies that the motivation
behind GNU EPrints was that otherwise his greatest
contribution to Free Software would be the GIMP coffee stain
script-fu effect.

Is system architect and co-author for the GnuSpeech
text-speech-system based on an articulatory tube-model
synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter
generation. His interests include computer generated
speech intonation, distributed object systems,computer
security and web applications.

Daniel Valentine

Darshit Shah

Is a free software activist living in Bournemouth, UK,
working towards the software freedom of fonts. He has
delivered several lectures on free software.

David C. Niemi

Has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University
of Illinois. He maintains Unixbench
and helps maintain Mtools. He
has also contributed patches to the Linux kernel and
various GNU utilities. He is the lead system
administrator for the tux.org domain and writes papers
on related topics.

Is a member of the GCC steering committee and initiated the GCC
Runtime Library Exception.

David MacKenzie

Wrote or polished many of the GNU core utilities and their
documentation. He was the principal designer and
author of Autoconf, and prototyped Automake. He has
worked for the FSF and Cygnus in the past.
After creating scalable web server infrastructure for UUNET,
he is currently at a startup and continues contributing to
free software from time to time.

Is principal and co-author for the GnuSpeech
text-speech-system based on an articulatory tube-model
synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter
generation. His interests include speech recognition
and synthesis (phonology, rhythm, intonation and
models), speech animation, and AI.

David Sugar

Is one of the authors and principal maintainer of GNU Common C++,
which is a portable general purpose C++ framework for
application development. David Sugar also founded the
GNU
Bayonne project, and was one of the principal
founders of OST, a commercial entity (now inactive) that used to
develop and promote free GPL-licensed telephony solutions.

Is the sponsor and primary administrator
of Blastwave.org [unavailable as of Dec 2012].
The Blastwave project offers the largest free software
stack to Solaris users worldwide with fifty mirror
sites including primary mirrors in Germany, China,
Australia and United States. Blastwave allows users
to freely package GNU and free software for free usage
by anyone. Any user may join the project and package
software or even just experiment with various Solaris
incantations including OpenSolaris. The project has
been running continuously since 2002.

David has played an involved part with the Webmasters, including serving as Chief Webmaster, and was maintainer of GNU Rot[t]log. He continues to focus his work on
free documentation, using free software, and participates on GNU Mailing Lists to provide bug fixes and
feature additions.

Has been porting GNU software to MS-DOS since around 1989, culminating in
DJGPP. Also wrote
doschk, and maintains
his own GNU web site with online doc
and package listings. Currently works for Cygnus porting GNU software to Windows NT.

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Emmanuel Medernach

Is currently one of the maintainers
of GNU M4 and
GNU Autoconf.
He has additionally contributed to several other GNU
projects, such as Findutils, Coreutils, Automake, Libtool,
and Classpath, and maintains ports of several GNU programs
for Cygwin.

Eric S. Raymond

Wrote the VC (version control), GUD (Grand Unified Debugger) and asm (assembler) modes
in GNU Emacs. He's also responsible for a lot
of the header comments in the Emacs Lisp library. He wrote the pic documentation
released with groff-1.11.

Is co-maintainer of GNU
libmicrohttpd, and contributes to other GNU projects.
He has Master's Degree in Physics (Moscow State University)
and PhD in Telecom. Evgeny lives in Moscow, Russia and
likes to work in hi-tech projects.

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Filippo Rusconi

Is the author and maintainer of GNU polyxmass.
This software suite allows users to perform mass spectrometric data simulations
and analyses for whatever polymer chemistry type and polymer sequence.

Is the maintainer of etags, which is part of
Emacs. He contributed
the 68020 assembler code of
gzip, ported Emacs
to the Motorola Delta 68k architecture, wrote some Emacs packages, and
did various minor things.

Franco Iacomella <yaco (at) gnu.org>

He was an university investigator in Argentina. He was
involved in multiple GNU subprojects in relation with politics,
licenses, documentation, translations and education, and
often spoke at conferences about GNU Project and free software
movement.

Frank de Lange

Is a software evaluator for the GNU Project and develops a Gnome/GTK port of the
LyX document processor.

Is a member of the GCC steering committee and maintains
the web pages (and documentation) for GCC. In addition, between 2000 and 2003
he maintained gnatsweb, a web-based front-end for the
GNATS bug tracking system.

Is the maintainer of
the FisicaLab
project. He also contributes
with GNUstep project. He lives in
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Besides programming computers, Germán likes
mathematics, physics and read books.

Is the maintainer of some GNU packages including wget and
gcal. During the years he contributed to
several other packages
including GCC, gnulib,
coreutils, diff,
Emacs. He
helps managing the Google Summer of Code program for the GNU project.

Gordon Matzigkeit

Was the principal author of GNU Libtool.
He is currently working on GNU system integration, with a focus on the
GNU Hurd.

Graham Percival

Is a co-maintainer of GNU
LilyPond, and editor of most of its documentation.

Is the maintainer of the GNUstep project. He has been the
maintainer and principal author of GNU Gorm
(InterfaceBuilder) for) the past few years and has
written many classes in gui (AppKit) for the project. He
sincerely hopes that the project will reach its full
potential.

Jason was the designer and author for GNU.FREE, a heavy duty
Internet voting system. He currently lives in Brighton, UK and works on various
projects including his story-telling site
the couch.
He is active in the environmental, human rights and free software movements and
enjoys speaking & writing about the issues they encompass. In his spare time he
is a keen fencer, his preferred weapon being the sabre.

Jeff Binder

Has been involved with GNU since 1985, when he helped Richard Stallman design GCC. He
has contributed to many free software packages including
Emacs, the GNU
C Library, the
X Window System and others. Jeff did the
original port of many GNU packages to Windows NT.

Jeremiah Benham

Jia Wang

Has worked for the Free Software Foundation on and off for nine years. He currently
maintains Guile, as a volunteer. Along with
Richard Stallman, he was responsible for the release of version 19 of
GNU Emacs. Jim lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

Has been a user and advocate of GNU/Linux
systems since 1992. His current interest relating to GNU/Linux systems is
software administration. He's author and maintainer of
GNU Swbis, an implementation of the POSIX
packaging standard with features and extensions to promote the use of
strong authentication in the distribution and installation of free software
packages. Jim lives and works in Richmond, Virginia USA.

Has maintained the GNU Coreutils since 1991. After merging the
portability/maintainability (lib/, m4/, automake) core of the
textutils, fileutils, and sh-utils into the coreutils, he
subsequently migrated most of that into a separate project
that is now known as Gnulib.

Joel E. Denny

Joel N. Weber II

Helps with system administration. He set up kerberos, he set up the
secondary mail
server for gnu.org, and he did most of the work of migrating from the old mail
and file server to the new in the fall of 2000. He has also handled a lot of the DNS
configuration, set up the Cisco router for 51 Franklin St and set up support for remote
console access and remote rebooting for machines in Boston. He has been a significant
contributor to the internal system administration documentation, and has also done
numerous more minor tasks. He hopes to find the time to someday write some music and
security software.

Is the author of forms-mode for GNU Emacs and of several other tools that are
freely available in the spirit of GNU.

John Catherino

Was the author and maintainer of
the Cajo project. He was working with a worldwide community of free
software developers, to provide seamless transparent distributed
computing for grid and cluster platform developers. John Catherino passed
away on April 16, 2016 in Anchorage.

John Collins jmc AT xisl
DOT com

Is the author and maintainer of GNUspool and GNUbatch. He lives in near London,
England with Sue and a stroppy dog. Sometimes they contrive to let him
play Chess and Go — see him on ICC, KGS, IGS and DGS as toadwarble
— see KGS graph.

John W. Eaton

Jonas Öberg

Is the author and maintainer of
GNU TeXmacs.
Joris is a researcher in mathematics and computer science at the french CNRS
institute. Besides GNU TeXmacs, Joris likes computer algebra and guitar playing.

Jose E. Marchesi is a long-term GNU activist. In 1999, he
founded
GNU Spain, and he later assisted in the creation of GNU Italy
and GNU
Mexico. His experience in GNU software maintainership
covers GNU GV (up to
2007), GNU
Ghostscript (up to 2006), GNU
Ferret and GNU PDF. He also
performs what he calls "random works" in the GNU Project, such as
writing internal code and editing Web pages as needed. He develop his
professional work in the Space sector, writing software for the
European Space Agency.

Is a member of the core team of the UTUTO-e Project,
co-founder of SOLAR
(Software Libre ARgentina), and founder of LUGCASARES (
GNU/Linux
User Group of Carlos Casares). Currently writing a
project about “The creation of a GNU/Linux Distribution”
made from source. This distribution will be named for
Carlos Casares, the city where he lives.

Jürgen Sauermann

Is an APL veteran since the end of the 1970s, and author and maintainer
of GNU APL since 2013. He developed huge mainframe-sized parallel APL
computers in the 1980s, but is now down to smaller embedded systems like
Raspberry, Atmel, and even FPGAs.

Justin Baugh

Was a systems administrator at the FSF from February 2005
until April 2008.

Laurence Finston

Is co-author for the GnuSpeech text-speech-system based on an articulatory
tube-model synthesiser, and a speech-event form of parameter generation. His
interests include digital audio signal processing and physical-modelling sound
synthesis.

Les Kopari

Has prepared some web pages, and wrote the awk script that produces the html
for our Program-Package Cross Reference.

Lezz Giles

Lisa M. Opus Goldstein

Joined the FSF as a volunteer in February 1986, half a year after the FSF
was founded, and was our second full-time employee. She stayed for eight
years until departing to see the world and continue her education, returning
in May of 2001 to be our new Business Manager until September 2004.

Is the author of GNU
Source-highlight: a collection of programs that given a source file produces
a document with syntax highlighting (including java2html and cpp2html). He is
also a developer and the maintainer of
gengetopt.

Has been a user of GNU/Linux
systems and a proud free software advocate since 1995. His current
main interests are programming languages and their implementation.
He's author and maintainer of GNU
epsilon, an extensible programming language. After attending most
GNU Hackers Meeting he also organized the
2013 edition in Paris.

Luca currently lives somewhere around Paris, France. Born in another
country, he developed a strong antipathy towards the very idea of a
nation.

Luis Falcon is the author and maintainer of GNU Health, the Free Health and Hospital
Information System. Luis is the president of GNU Solidario, an NGO that
delivers health and education with Free Software to the underprivileged.

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Marcos Serrou do Amaral

Is maintainer of GNU UnRTF.

Marc Tardif <mtardif@interunion.ca>

Is the author and maintainer of GNU Bool, a
utility for finding files that match a boolean expression.

Markus Steinborn

Martin Schanzenbach

Masayuki Hatta

Is currently maintaining GNU a2ps and Japanese translation of GNU Web pages and was chief
GNU translation coordinator, who administers
web translation efforts
into other languages apart from English, after Luis M. Arteaga.

Michael Opdenacker

Is one of the maintainers for Guile and has
ported and worked on development of GOOPS,
Guile's object system. He is currently working on his PhD in Graybiel
Lab, see the Wayback Machine (archived June 05, 1997), at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
MIT and is a graduate student in SANS
(Studies of Artificial Neural
Systems) at KTH (Royal Institute of
Technology), Stockholm.

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Is the author and project coordinator of GNOWSYS and Chairperson of FSF India. He is a philosopher of
science and educationist working in the gnowledge.org lab at Mumbai in
India at Homi Bhabha Centre for
Science Education, working in the area of structure and dynamics of
knowledge. He gives speeches introducing the philosophy of free
software, free knowledge and free society. He is also a project
coordinator and lead developer of an independent free software project
SELF-Platform.

Nathan Nichols <nathannichols454@gmail.com>

Is a maintainer/author of GNU LibreJS,
a JavaScript browser add-on that accepts/denies JavaScript from websites
based on license.

Nazim Djafar

Is the maintainer of the jwois package.
Nazim has worked as a developer and
system administrator and is a GNU/Linux user since 2000. He is a free software
activist and has given speeches on free software at the USTHB GNU/Linux install
party in 2010 and 2011 and at the Algeria 2.0 events in 2012.

Is a former system administrator and release coordinator
for the FSF. He still volunteers as time permits,
maintaining a few Lisp programs for GNU Emacs and
working with others to maintain various GNU packages.

Nils Gey

Developer and public relations of GNU Denemo

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He was one of the authors of the GNUstep Database Library, and worked on
various GNUstep packages (the GNUstep-make, GNUstep-GUI and GNUstep-X
libraries). Between 1998 and 2003 he was the maintainer of the Objective-C
frontend and runtime library in GCC.

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Was converted from the Windows world to the
GNU/Linux
world after he took over maintaining and developing GNU
Smalltalk. He develops free software in time left
free from studying and advocating the benefits of free
software to his the-source-is-mine friends.

Paul Eggert

Paul Eggert has contributed to many GNU packages,
including Emacs, GCC, Automake, Bash, CVS, Ghostscript,
Grep, Groff, Gzip, and Make. Currently he maintains or
co-maintains Diffutils, Patch, RCS, Tar, Gzip, and the tz
database, and also contributes to Autoconf, Bison,
Coreutils, the GNU C library, and Gnulib. He teaches in
the UCLA Computer Science Department.

Took over maintenance of GNU make from Roland McGrath. A
long-time beta tester for GNU Emacs and author of
snmp-mode.el and various other ELisp tidbits.
User/tester of various GNU packages for over 10 years!

Peter Gerwinski

Peter Miller

Has contributed to the GNU Gettext
project, and also produce a range of GPLed software. He
has over 20 years experience in software engineering
including graphics, languages and compiler, networking
and security, web tools, software process tools, and
system administration and sysadmin tools.

Prof. Masayuki Ida

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Rajesh Vaidheeswarran

Is the maintainer of cons, author
and maintainer of whitespace.el (ships with GNU Emacs) and a few other
emacs-lisp libraries. He is also one of the GNU webmasters and sysadmins.

Ralf S. Engelschall

Contributes to the free software community since many
years. His most popular contributions are WML, ePerl, iSelect,
MM, and
NPS. He
is also a core team member of the Apache Group and has
contributed some popular things to the Apache community,
including mod_rewrite,
mod_ssl, the DSO
facility, the Apache Autoconf-style Interface
(APACI), etc. He's also one of the founders of the OpenSSL project.
Finally to the GNU Project he has contributed shtool,
and Pth.

Is a volunteer programmer at SimpleMachines, Italy and is currently
hacking on a port of PicoLisp for the Mizar32 computer. He does most
of his work with GNU Emacs but he also
once wrote
a patch to get a free (as in freedom) vi clone to run on a
microcontroller. He is a maintainer of and a contributor
to GNU Gengen.

Is one of the co-maintainers and developers of GNU Guix, GNU’s functional package manager.
Ricardo is also the primary author and maintainer of Guile-Debbugs,
a Guile library to communicate with a Debbugs SOAP service.

Richard Shann

Founded the GNU Project in 1984. He is the principal or
initial author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, the GNU
Debugger GDB and parts of other packages. He founded
the Free Software
Foundation (FSF) in October 1985, and served as its president until September 2019.
Stallman has never had a Facebook account. He has a twitter account
"rmspostcomments" for use with other sites, but has no other Twitter
account. Aside from that, any account on these sites claiming to be
his is fake.

Robert J. Chassell

Was one of the founders of the Free Software Foundation,
and wrote the Introduction to Emacs Lisp Programming.

Is the primary author of the GNU plotting utilities,
and the designer of the libxmi
scan-conversion library. He professes mathematics at the
University of Arizona.

Rob Savoye

Is the author of DejaGnu, the GNU regression testing
framework, and libgloss, a BSP library for the GNU tools
for embedded systems.

Roel Janssen

Is the author of GNU InklingReader and GNU GWL, and a contributor to GNU
Guix.

Roland McGrath

Worked on the GNU Project from 1987 to 1996. He is the
principal author of the GNU C Library, co-author
of the GNU Hurd,
co-author of GNU Make, and a major contributor to GNU
Autoconf. He has also hacked on many other GNU programs
over the years.

Roland Stigge

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Is the lead developer and co-maintainer of
GNU Screen, a full-screen
terminal window manager. He is also a lead developer of
Pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging
program. He is a Bangladeshi
living in Ottawa, Canada.

Sam Steingold

Is the co-maintainer of GNU CLISP - an
ANSI Common Lisp implementation. He also contributes to
GNU Emacs.

Sandra Loosemore

Has been involved with the GNU project since 1991, when RMS hired her to
write the GNU C
Library Reference Manual as an FSF employee. Nowadays she is a
maintainer for GCC and Binutils, and an occasional contributor to
GDB.

Sebastian Wieseler

He started idle-ing on #savannah July 17, 2004 and after finishing his
school years he was an active member for some time after May 24, 2005.

Lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the main author of GNU Libidn, GNU
SASL, GNU Shishi, GNU GSS and maintainer of GnuTLS and GNU Libtasn1. He
regularly contribute to many other GNU and non-GNU free software
projects through his consulting company, does standardization work in
the IETF and has spoken at several conferences.

Is the author of Electric, the
GNU CAD system for IC and Schematic design, which he
continues to maintain and enhance. He is also the singer
in Severe Tire Damage,
the first band to play live on the Internet.

Susan Bassein

Sverre Hvammen Johansen

He started working on Savannah in the post-compromise
context, since 2004-02-07, so he's had the time to work
on about every aspect of the service. Besides that he is
the author and maintainer of GNU FreeDink.

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Terje Mjøs

Thomas Bushnell, BSG

Is the principal architect of the GNU Hurd, which is the
kernel for the GNU system. He previously maintained GNU
tar, and even wrote a BASIC interpreter. He has done many
other things too, some of them having nothing to do with
computers. Thomas was renamed from Michael Bushnell
in 1996.

Tom Cato Amundsen <tca@gnu.org>

Is the author of GNU Solfege, a
ear training program for GNOME, and he has also done a
little work with fonts and mudela-book for GNU Lilypond. He
recently got his Master of Education in Music, but spends
far too much time programming Solfege and using free
software.

Yoni Rabkin (aka yrk)

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has been a volunteer for the Free Software Foundation
Compliance Lab since 2004 and is a member of GPL
v3 Committee D. He works for eZ systems AS as
their Managing Director for North America and for the
Mozilla Foundation as their Ombudslizard.